We took it easy today, as per our usual Sunday… BHK and I woke and puttered a bit, at at The Frying Pan before heading to Aardvark’s to use the gift certificate we got from the Newsies. We picked up family fluxx, my comics and a few deck boxes for our card games – with the bonus stuff for Zombie and regular fluxx, they’ve rather outgrown the cardboard boxes they came in. I was pleasantly surprised to see a nice display of looney labs stuff there – werewolf and and assortment of…
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9027 – mon
First and foremost – a quick random pic of newton for his fans.
I imagine pye was along shortly after to play.
Bhk and I had a yummy supper of tomato soup and pizza-bagels. Just right for a cool night of watching more psych and installing our water cooler.
Not much to say today – have an assorted news links edition, dear journal.
The AP has a story on Netflix’s move to head off expected competition from Apple: the company will lift limits on streaming its movies for most subscribers. The story reports on rumors of an Apple movie-download service that may be announced by Steve Jobs on Tuesday. In the past Netflix has imposed limits on how long its subscribers could watch streamed movies; for example, those who paid $16.99/mo. could stream up to 17 hours per month. The limits will end on Monday for most subscribers (except for those paying $4.99 for two DVD rentals a month, said to be a small minority). The company has 6,000 movies available for streaming, compared to 90,000 that you can get delivered in the mail.
via consumerist –
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to give you 100 gallons of free heating oil to help survive the cold cruel capitalist winter. The hogshead of liquid warmth is available to anyone enduring a financial hardship who fills out a handy online form.
Eligibility is determined with two questions: First, do you live in one of these 16 states?
Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC, Delaware, Maryland, Alaska, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana.
Second, do you need the oil? Need is relative, but if you have a family and make less than $40,000, you probably qualify. Citizens Energy, which administers the program, evaluates each application on a case-by-case basis and issues eligible applicants a voucher redeemable for 100 gallons of CITGO heating oil.
It’s almost sweet of our communist friends to shove the inequalities and harsh realities of capitalism in our faces with a program that actually helps people pay for an increasingly unwieldy cost of living expense.
For more information, call Citizens Energy at: (877) 563-4645, or fill out their online application.
Individual Households [Citizens Energy]
Call for Guantanamo to be closed I wonder how that’ll hit Kev and Paul? Continue reading 9027 – mon
The Frying Pan (4/5)
Tasty crab cakes and sea scallops – salad itself was just ok, but the home made dressing was fantastic. Prices are very reasonable – very rustic / mom & pop atmosphere. Friendly servers – still a…
9026 – sun
We took it easy today, as per our usual Sunday… BHK and I woke and puttered a bit, at at The Frying Pan before heading to Aardvark’s to use the gift certificate we got from the Newsies. We picked up family fluxx, my comics and a few deck boxes for our card games – with the bonus stuff for Zombie and regular fluxx, they’ve rather outgrown the cardboard boxes they came in. I was pleasantly surprised to see a nice display of looney labs stuff there – werewolf and and assortment of Fluxx decks is a sign of good fun.
If all goes according to plan, Bugah will be staying with us next weekend – I’ll be recovering from the dentist, but playing wii and just generally goofing around should be a great time for us all. Maybe we can convert him to playing fluxx, too.
In other gaming news – Half-life 2 progressing in a fun way, slowly – about 10 min of game play each time… playing on the airboat right now. Just made it to the red barn. Total Playing time: 4 hrs past 2 weeks (all pc games, including peggle, portal, team fortress 2, counterstrike, hl2, and so on) I’m just not hardcore anymore… if I ever was. Too much fun stuff to do in meat-space – video gaming is usually what I do while I wait for BHK to get ready to go out.
We were planning on heading over get groceries and then to the in-laws to set up some trains, but we grew too fatigued, and just headed home to watch our backlog of psych episodes and began the business of packing up Christmas decor for another 11 months.
I don’t even remember what I had for supper… Oh, wait, got it. Cheese crackers. I skipped the leftover spaghetti – will lunch that tomorrow.
1 year ago – dream ramble – voice post
2 years ago – icon snatching, lost, dr who, flickr tools, books, compusa, meeting of the daves, cool weather, birds ate my brains, prejudice map, findory,
3 years ago – Lost, romainan pop inspires .htaccess, supercar, anonymous statement meme, age act meme
4 years ago – That Stretchy Guy & That Clay Guy.
5 years ago – cops, prezzies, kidthinks
6 years ago – space commies and monkeys, dream, haiku, mothman, tarot
7 years ago – SOS, folk fest, annoyed with collapsing tabs, brian howdy, super friends drinking game 
9025 – saturday
see doodle! Somehow, LArry looks like commissioner gordon here.
allergy shots
bhk, larry, chris and I watched angel-a
(s)nap-time
spaghetti
playing with tigger
later night peggle
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From about a week ago – rough day.
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doodled while relaxing at the in-laws
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1 year ago – Salem and Marion pics
2 years ago – las olas wifi, newt pics, flash on dvd (I got it this xmas!), moist poll,
3 years ago – Hump day doodle, work, mel, moody blues,…
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9024 – friday
Baby Polar bear homepage! When does he get his armor, and star in a crappy movie? (I set google to auto-translate from german) He was born on Just about 4 weeks ago.
Aww.. I love him. Maybe BHK will let me have one, if we get a duck and a llama.
Variant route to work this morning – left a little late, got off at fort trotten, and took r2 in… got to work by 8:15, well before my preferred deadline of 8:30.
Came home, had subway subs and watched The Ex, and the finaled of…
9025 – saturday
see doodle! Somehow, LArry looks like commissioner gordon here.
allergy shots
bhk, larry, chris and I watched angel-a
(s)nap-time
spaghetti
playing with tigger
later night peggle
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From about a week ago – rough day.
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doodled while relaxing at the in-laws
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1 year ago – Salem and Marion pics
2 years ago – las olas wifi, newt pics, flash on dvd (I got it this xmas!), moist poll,
3 years ago – Hump day doodle, work, mel, moody blues, ex-coworkers read my journal, parrot jungle?
4 years ago – Walkies-pix continued, ShOr deleted, bad storefronts
5 years ago – fog-walking, SOP
6 years ago – WID meeting, John Buscema passed away, bad day
7 years ago – brad pushes for growth, bicycle built for 2, lj creaking, bug city, recipes, Siddhartha
why does penicillin smell like butt?
Friday. Excellent. Soon, I will dine, and then… four hours later.. I’ll be off to play with BHK!
9024 – friday
Baby Polar bear homepage! When does he get his armor, and star in a crappy movie? (I set google to auto-translate from german) He was born on Just about 4 weeks ago.
Aww.. I love him. Maybe BHK will let me have one, if we get a duck and a llama.
Variant route to work this morning – left a little late, got off at fort trotten, and took r2 in… got to work by 8:15, well before my preferred deadline of 8:30.
Came home, had subway subs and watched The Ex, and the finaled of Spidey 3. Spidey wasn’t as bad as I’d heard, the third time around.. the Ex was pretty formula, and didn’t do a lot for me, but it was nice getting together with family and hanging out.
Friday 5 via eryx_uk –
1. Where do you like to walk?
Anywhere! I like people-watching, architecture and nature-watching.. I prefer a reasonably hazard-free surface in a comfy climate. The woods, cityscape and boardwalk are all great.
2. What does your hair look like?
Currently cut short, brown, with bits of red, gray, black and blonde tossed in for good measure. Thinning some on top, more gray being tossed in daily – plentiful enough on arms, legs and etc.
3. What are you jealous of?
I’m not a very jealous person these days.
4. What kind of promises do you make?
The kind I plan on keeping… I rarely promise anything.
5. What makes you stare?
When my mind drifts, I tend to lock onto a location in space and stare at it… I’m prone to gaze deeply at anything that would attract a magpie or a monkey. Shiny stuff, moving trees in the wind, an unusual color amongst the grays.
Sinister TV-b-gone mischief at the CES by gizmodo.
Mean, in some instances (Motorola), but cool to see a whole video wall go off.
1 year ago – newt and pye pics / video, off to marion
2 years ago – hijinks, top 10 questions, hieroglyphic names, system still out for repair, doodling
3 years ago – turtle thought, dinero, illumination, tv torrents, vampire hunting with a stand up bass, metasearch, mucho folks fired for keeping online journals, iraqi abuse cheerleaders, server location, flying_blind introduces me to the term blague which is a perfect alternate to blog.
4 years ago – drama flakes, bad taste, Dentsu, Tintin, Sandalwood and walkabout
5 years ago – LotR, Nipple scarves, vax-d, UBER-PEA!, Newt piccies
6 years ago – Colostomy bag thief, D&D stats, monkey god baby
7 years ago – looking to the future, all the words
The octopus who loves his Mr Potato Head
The octopus who loves his Mr Potato Head
The octopus who loves his Mr Potato Head
Louis the octopus clearly thinks two heads are better than one when it comes to toys.
The 1.8m-wide (6ft) creature is so attached to Mr Potato Head that he turns aggressive when aquarium staff try to remove it from his tank.
Louis cuddles his Mr Potato Head
The giant Pacific octopus was given the toy for Christmas and has even learned to dig out food hidden in a secret box at the back…